The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-10

ately In New Hampshire, a much more
sparsely settled State than Indiana. nearly all
the roads carry passengers OF all classes at Two
cents per mile.
Theodore Brown, who represents the c., L,
ST. L. & c. road in the Southeast with head
quarters at Chattanooga. is in the city Mr..
roads are feeling finely. They have large crops
to move and are getting their equipments and
road beds into good shape to handle them.
The July business of the express companies at
this point was handsomely in excess OF that OF
the corresponding period last year One of the
agents OF the old companies says that appar-
entity the more express companies there are the
more docs business improve with the old COM
panies. Eight express com panies are now repre-
sented at Indianapolis against three 1ve years
ago.
b. D. Chaplin. aged seventy-one years died at
Springfield, Mass, last week. Mr. Chaplin had
been in railroad service in some capacity nearly
all his life. He was interested in the con-
struction of the Erie road the n Y, p. q o..
when it was the Atlantic e Great Western, and
was at one time director in the c., l.. St L. %
&. road. One of its locomotives was named
after him.
The Niagara Falls excursion yesterday. from
Indianapolis and points east of here, over the l.,
IL. q W., was grand success, the excursionlsts
filling thirty two coaches to their utmost capae-
lty. The returns TO General Passenger Agent
Bronson show that the two trains carried l,3l2
excursionists. This road will have another Nj
agara Falls excursion from points on the Peoria
division on the the 23d of this month.
The Evansville & Terre Haute road has just
turned out of its shops a baggage car specially
adapted to carrying baggage and scenery of
theatrical troupes. The car is sixty-ive feet In
length. has two doors on each side, and one In
each end. to the side of the car that
scenery of that length can be loaded into 1t IL
necessary. The master car builder claims that
it is the largest and most conveniently con-
structed baggage-car run in this country.
A singular accident occurred on the c., l., St.
L. & c. road which detained the trains
Greensburg, yesterday afternoon. fonr hours
A large stone dropped from flat-car unnoticed,
and. while it cleared the cars following, did not
fall SO far from the track that the engine of
other section following would escape it. The
engineer saw the stone, but not in season to stop
his train, a. the pilot struck the stone and de-
rallied the engine in such a manner that it was
an ugly job TO put it on the track again.
John F. Miller, general superin tendent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Plttsburg, was in the
city yesterday for a compile of hours, accompa-
MED by Division Superintendent Turner and
Harry Miller, engineer of maintenance of way.
Mr. Miller states that everything is moving
along smoothly but that the company is short
of cars Notwithstanding the thousands which
have been added to their equipment in the last
few months Special orders have been issued to
agents to that unloaded promptly,
and in no case used as store houses.
The Boston Herald says that capitalists of
that city only involved in the c.. II. u ID.
deal as lenders of money. and that they hold
collaterals worth times the money they have
advanced. The Herald adds: 1.-THE dispatches
regarding the Ives-Staynor embarrassment
too many and too conflicting to present intel
ligibly in this column. Let il suffice TO say that
If il has been laDced at last, it will be good
thing for the street. however ii may be for the
individuals referred TO. and the Cincinnati Ham
ilton q Dayton railroad"